A Quote by J. D. Salinger

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

J. D. Salinger

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J. D. Salinger
American - Writer
January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010

I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.

Aditi Rao Hydari

I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely.

John Hume

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

John Hume

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

George Steiner

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

Ethan Zuckerman

I can read minds, but I'm illiterate.

Mitch Hedberg

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

Evangeline Lilly

I read a lot when I was quite young and have been through phases when I have read less but it helps me stay in the zone when there is so much going on.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.

Daniel Tammet

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Juan Cole

You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

J. K. Rowling

The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

James Purdy

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.

Gabrielle Zevin

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